[113884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 Anycast?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Apr 22 17:48:13 2009
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:48:05 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <20090422213625.GA55525@gweep.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe Provo wrote:
> And the overall message is that only the (prefix holder|originating
> ASn[s]) can tell you if it is intended or not. Sadly, this is not a
> useful metric for a third-party to use to determine prefix annoucnement
> legitimacy. Perhaps an update to RPSL to allow for intentional multiple
> origins is overdue?
Legitimacy no, but it does lead one to believe that most anycast (given
> 3 locations) is homogeneous. I would love multiple origin support.
Jack
